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Originally Posted by sanddrag

Finally. I've waited years for this change on pit load in and setup. I actually proposed it in a Frank answers Fridays submission a long time ago, and to Frank personally in a face to face discussion many months ago. While the response took a while, they really are listening!

I'll reserve judgement on the trophy issue until I hear whether or not Long Beach and Ventura will have Wednesday night pit setup. ;-)

I'm not sure of why pit setup needs more volunteers, but if that's a barrier to doing it, by all means let us know and we'll find the volunteers.

I am curious how much trophies cost though. And how many do we really go through in a season? 1500? At $50 which I think should be absolute top of the mark for these, that's $75,000 per year. Not insignificant, but also not a gigantic cost considering the scale of the program, and an annual operating budget in the several tens of millions per year.

This webpage probably has fairly close numbers to what FIRST pays for the trophies.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...son-order-form